Current Events > GOP removes page praising Trump's 'historic' peace deal with the Taliban

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https://www.newsweek.com/gop-removes-webpage-praising-trumps-historic-peace-deal-taliban-1619605

The Republican National Committee has removed a webpage from 2020 in which it praised Donald Trump for signing a "historic peace agreement with the Taliban."

David Weigel, of The Washington Post, was the first to spot that the page had been removed with the web address redirecting to a 404 error page featuring the quip: "It looks like you're as lost as Biden is."

The Guardian's congressional reporter Hugo Lowell later confirmed the webpage's removal after successfully tracking down the now-deleted page via The Wayback Machine digital archive.

Featured as part of a section titled "President Trump Is Bringing Peace In The Middle East," the page described how the former U.S. president had "continued to take the lead in peace talks."

The page also claims that "while President Trump has championed peace, Joe Biden has taken the lead in pushing for endless wars."

It's also notable that the now-deleted webpage claimed Trump had "taken action to defeat ISIS and eliminate dangerous leaders."

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the organization's current political chief, was released from a Pakistani jail at the request of the US while Trump was in office.

Trump has been a vocal critic of President Biden's withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan branding it "one of the greatest defeats in American history."

The Taliban has quickly seized control of Afghanistan in the days since the U.S. withdrawal commenced.

"It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan," Trump said in the statement.

"It shouldn't be a big deal, because he wasn't elected legitimately in the first place," he added.

"What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary." Trump continued.

"It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history!"

The criticisms come despite the fact it was the Trump administration which first brokered a deal to withdraw troops from the region.

In the now-deleted GOP webpage, it is stated that Trump negotiated a deal for the withdrawals by May 2021 "in exchange for a Taliban agreement to not allow Afghanistan to be used for transnational terrorism."

Upon his arrival in the White House, Biden instead decided to instigate a total withdrawal from Afghanistan, setting a deadline of August 31 for completion.

That process has been all but completed two weeks ahead of the planned date.

Biden has defended his decision to withdraw, claiming he was left with little choice given the deal Trump had negotiated with the Taliban which he felt left the organization "in the strongest position militarily since 2001."

"When I became president, I faced a choicefollow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies' forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country's civil conflict," he said in the statement.

As recently as April, Trump was also voicing his support for withdrawal, stating that "getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do."

"Nineteen years is long enough, in fact, far too much and way too long," he said.

Newsweek has reached out to the GOP for comment.

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If the pullout had gone smoothly instead, you can bet they'd be boasting and taking all the credit.

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Politics in the US is like Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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They're clearly going to act like Trump had nothing to do with this, and then hold it over Biden's head as we go to midterms and the 2024 election. Especially if, god forbid, the Taliban manages to pull off an attack on US soil in that time.

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What a surprise, another example of the GOP trying to rewrite history

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pathetic

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Bio1590 posted...

"It shouldn't be a big deal, because he wasn't elected legitimately in the first place," he added.

And this is why the fat dipshit should continue to be banned from social media. If he's going to continue spreading his dumb fuck conspiracy bullshit because he refuses to admit he lost.
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Its almost like they knew Trump was going to lose, so here's their strategy to make Biden look like a piece of shit to their base.

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Mearcstapa posted...

If the pullout had gone smoothly instead, you can bet they'd be boasting and taking all the credit.

Thats what she said, HEYOOO
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This is one of the laziest attempts at revisionist history I've ever seen because everyone got news of this shit just a few months ago

But it's probably gonna work out for them in 2024 since the average American is a fucking moron with the memory of a goldfish

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